"Hi Screwball. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to up and disappear on ya." I tell the crying mare.

"Disappear?! Seth, you vanished off the face of Equis! Where did you even go for four days?!" Screwball shouts.

"Four days? We were only gone for a few hours. Right?" Bella says, confused.

"There must've been a time difference." I say before looking at Screwball. "Sorry Screwy, we didn't mean to leave, we got summoned. Good news is, we learned a few things."

"Summoned? What do you mean?" Screwy says, letting go of my neck to slide down to the ground and wiping her eyes with her arm.

"Turns out me and Bella are something called a Displaced. Humans that are ripped from our world and sent to different places in the multiverse. Displaced can summon each other through the use of something called a token. I accidentally made one for me yest- I mean, five days ago."

"What? You mean during your fight with Aggregor?" Screwy asks.

"That's the one. Now, not only can Displaced use tokens but living beings that are very powerful can use then too, although I think this causes some problems, because I highly doubt I'm meant to be sucked into the portal like that. Anyway, a INCREDIBLY powerful woman found my token and 'activated' it, causing me and Bella to get sucked through." I explain to the mare.

"Wait, why did Bella get sucked in?" Screwy asks.

"Probably because she was standing next to me when the portal opened." I answer.

"If that's true, why wasn't I sucked in too? I was standing in between you two." Screwy says.

"Huh. Don't know." I answer.

"Maybe it's because I'm a Displaced too?" Bella says.

"Ah, that's probably it." I say. "So, we were gone for four days?"

"Yep, I got in a lot of trouble. Everypony thought I did it. They only believed me when they checked out were the portal was. No chaos magic were it happened. They were still suspicious though so I haven't left this place yet." Screwy said.

"What." Me and Bella said at the same time.

"Oh, don't worry. I could just use my magic to get me food, and it means I can finally get this collar off." Screwy says, pointing to her neck. I now see there is a large shackle around her neck with runes engraved on it. I grab the collar, sucking all the magic out of it and crush the latch, making it fall to the ground.

"Whoa. Thanks, much better." Screwy says, stretching her neck. I take a deep breath to calm down and start walking forwards.

"Which way to Ponyville?" I ask calmly.

"Oh, it's this way." Screwy says, walking down a well beaten path to my left. I follow behind her, Bella walking next to me.

"So, anything happen while we were gone?" I ask Screwy.

"Nothing much. Luna threw a tantrum because you didn't show up for her duel, I got blamed for your vanishing act, I convinced the princesses that you got sucked into a portal and not teleported off somewhere by me, they checked out the place where the portal appeared, figured out I couldn't be responsible because the energy and my magic didn't match, tried and failed to recreate the portal, bound me to the place it was with that collar saying, "you will not leave until Seth returns" and then I waited for you to come back. I think that's everything." Screwy says, carefreely.

"Nothing much? That's more than nothing much." Bella says angrily.

"It's fine. I knew you would come back, and besides, I could use my magic to entertain myself." Screwy replies.

"Still though, I'm not happy about it." I say.

"Well at least your here now." Screwy says, hugging my side. I pet her head as she does, happy that she is happy. I look ahead and see that we are coming up to Ponyville. I smile and say.

"Race you to the library." I unfurl my wings and take to the air, Bella right behind me and Screwy nowhere to be seen. I make it to the library in ten seconds, Bella beating me by a head and Screwy being nowhere in sight.
Wonder were she went? I phase through the library wall and see Screwy lying on a bench, eating a donut.

"What took you so long?" She asks smugly. Bella unlocks the door with her magic and looks to Screwy, confused.

"How'd she get here first?"

"Teleporting is cheating, Screwy." I say.

"You didn't specify." She retorts.

"Seth?" I hear Twilight ask from above me. I look up and see Twilight standing above us in her pajamas. "Seth! Your back!"

"What? Seth's back?" I hear Spike ask from Twilight's bedroom. He looks over the rail and sees me getting hugged by Twilight. "Seth!"

"Wow, my second hug today. Maybe I should disappear more often." I say chuckling.

"Don't you dare." Screwy says, drawing Twi and Spikes attention.

"Screwball? What are you-? Oh, right. You came here with Seth. … Where were you?!" Twi shouts, looking up at me.

"Sorry about that. I got called and I couldn't refuse." I say, annoying Twilight.

"What's that supposed to mean? Called? Called where?!" Twilight asks.

"Another dimension." I answer.

"What?" Spike asks wide eyed.

"Not now spike. And what do you mean 'another dimension'?" Twilight asks.

"Exactly that. And no, not the one we came from." I answer.

"We?" The purple mare asks. I just point a thumb to my right where Bella is standing.

"Ah! How're you?!" Twilight and Spike shout at the same time.

"Hi! I'm Bella. Seths childhood friend." Bella says calmly, holding her hand out for a hand shake.

"Uuh, hi. Sorry about that, we didn't know you were here." Twilight says, shaking Bellas hand.

"It's fine, with Seth here, I don't really stand out." Bella says.

"What are you?" Spike asks.

"I'm human, or at least I'm supposed to be. This is what Seth would of appeared to be, if he was still human." Bella answers, pointing at herself.

"Oh. Wait, supposed to be?" Twilight asks.

"I got changed too when I was sent here. But at least I still can look human." Bella says, ending with a smile.

"So this is what a human looks like?" Twilight asks.

"A female one, yes." Bella answers.

"Fascinating." Twilight says, now walking in a circle around Bella, a notepad and quill appearing beside her and floating in the air.
Really Twilight? I think.

"So similar to a pony. But no fur or tail. And a different form of skin and mane pigmentation."

"Twilight, stop analysing my friend." I tell her.

"Sorry. Wait. You said you were changed when you came here, what did you become?" Twilight asks. Bella responds by releasing her form, floating into the air as a Anodite.

"A being called an Anodite." Bella responds in her wavering voice.

"Wow." Twilight says, mesmerized by Bellas true form.

"Beautiful." Spike says before violently shaking his head.
What's he doing? I ponder.
Bella floats back down to the floor and changes back, now looking like a human again.

"So your an… Anodite? Now?" Twilight asks uncertainly.

"Yes." Bella answers, her voice normal again.

"I-I-I need to send a letter to the princesses. About you and about Seth being back. And i guess about Screwy too. By the way… what did you do with her restrictor?" Twilight says and asks me.

"You mean that collar she was wearing? Crushed it." I say, my tone final, shocking Twilight.

"Ok… Spike, take a letter. Dear princess Celestia. Seth has returned, bringing with him a friend from his home. Her name is Bella. She says she is something called a, what was- oh wait, Spike don't write that. She says she is a Anodite, but she is able to change herself so that she looks human, Seths true species. He said he had been called-"

"Better to say summoned." I interrupt.

"Ah. He says he was summoned to another dimension. He also specified that it was not his home dimension, but another. He also has Screwball with him. He says he crushed her restrictor. I was right that he wouldn't like having her bound to that spot. I await your response." She finishes. Spike rolls up the letter before tying and burning it, the smoke from the letter flying out a window.

"Well, I'm gonna get some sleep. Goodnight." I say yawning.

"Wait, were do I sleep?" Bella asks.

"Screwy, can you make Bella a sleeping bag?" I ask.

"Sure." She says, snapping up a sleeping bag.

"Thanks." Bella says, sad she can't get a proper bed.

"Alright. Goodnight everypony." Twilight calls as she goes back to bed.

I wake up the next day climbing out of my sleeping bag, looking around at my friends.
Well, today should be interesting. I think.
I get up and stretch, my head touching the ceiling.

"Good morning, Seth!" Princess Luna shouts, bursting through the library door.

"Ah!" I jump, hitting the ceiling and landing on my butt, thankfully missing my tail. "Princess Luna? What are you doing here?"

"Our match is overdue! Come! To Canterlot!" She declares.

"Match? Ugh, Luna, it's barely morning. Shouldn't you be asleep?" I ask her.

"I slept last night in preparation of our bout. Now come!" Luna says, walking out the door.

"Luna." I say, drawing her attention.

"Yes? Is something wrong?" The princess asks innocently.

"It is barely morning. I just woke up. I need time before I'll be fighting anypony." I say to the lunar diarch.

"Oh. Apologies. I was so excited that you had returned, I didn't think. Please, forgive me." Luna apologizes.

"Apology accepted, now, if you don't mind, I have to prepare." I say, getting up and walking towards the wall next to Luna.

"Prepare? For what?" She asks.

"Our bout, of course." I say smugly, standing next to her.

"Oh, how foolish of me. Wait, how did you get in-" Her question is cut off as I phase through the wall. She joins me outside and says. "No doing that during our fight."

"Oh, my dear princess Luna. Don't you know?" I say faux distraughtly. "All's fair in love and war." She opens her mouth to respond before it clicks shut at her realizing I'm right. "I will make my way to Canterlot in one hour, I shouldn't take too long to get there. See you soon." I say, walking away. I hear the pop of a teleportation spell behind me and grin.
This should be fun.

Author's Note

Sory for the wait last chapter.
Now, the DUEL.